If it is good enough for IRON MAN…

Glorious greetings, Girls! This has been a most AWAKENING week while undertaking my ‘speaking fast’…which I plan on writing in detail about soon…

In the meantime, there is something I am bursting to share. Because my routine changed somewhat from the shifting into silence – I took in a movie, which is unusual for me – my beloved took me out on a date night and his Mom took our boys for part of the weekend. (Since I wasn’t talking, a movie seemed like a good idea!)

I had heard from Victoria Boutenko’s newsletter, that IRON MAN drinks a GREEN SMOOTHIE, and so I was curious. I just had to see for myself how Hollywood would translate this! Well, it was as quick as a blink practically, but nevertheless…it was true! I was really tickled. That means that DRINKING GREEN DRINKS IS NOW COOL!

What a great thing! Especially for kids, but for US too!

In fact, instead of being ever so discreet carrying my green smoothie out in public in the hopes of avoiding the inevitable stares and comments like, “What is that green sludge you are drinking?” I welcome them!

The last time this happened, thanks to Hollywood, I was prepared! I wrote on a piece of paper “Have you seen IRON MAN yet? It’s what he drinks!”

That started a whole conversation and I was able to hand out my card and invite people to an upcoming recipe class that I teach. Fantastic!

wuhoo!

Another wonderful side effect of not being able to speak, was not answering phones, not helping with homework, not chatting on the phone with my girls…and so I actually found time to get some PAINTING IN!

Living in silence brings a heightened sense of EVERYTHING, especially my inner world. It reminds me of scuba diving in the Philippines. How GLORIOUS it was ‘down there,’ under the water. Soooo quiet, yet expansive, and breath-takingly BEAUTIFUL. A profound experience!

Submerged as I was this week in my own aura, I created these TWO paintings. Neither one was planned in any way, other than the palette (colors) that I chose.

After I determined the palette, I just did a wash. My boys and I were painting all together, all in silence. It was very moving actually.

Anyway, I quietly stared at my wash, and just sat looking to see if any shapes or forms were hiding there…and the entire painting, each time, was ALREADY THERE, just waiting for me to develop for it to be revealed!

The 2^nd one where Gaia (Mother Earth) is watering the world from her body, was a huge surprise to me! When I first ‘saw’ it, I even wondered if I should paint it, but then I decided to just ‘flow with it’.

When I finished, my boys said “I like it, but I don’t get it” and “why is her stomach leaking, Mama?” LOL! When Luke saw it, his reaction really surprised me! He LOVED IT. He said “the World needs the giving of your art!”

Dorit from the raw Film Festival in Hollywood said these paintings are ‘SPECTACULAR’ and that she would love to commission me to design a logo for her ‘GLADLY.’ Other comments have been; POWERFUL”,“PRIMORDIAL” and “ETHERALLY BEAUTIFUL”.

It was the first time in my life I actually FELT like ‘I AM an Artist’.

What a gift the Silence gave.

Bless!

Shannon ‘Shakaya Breeze’ Leone